How healthy is Black Pudding?

[andrew1707]

I was always led to believe that Black Pudding was not very healthy, but I noticed that the Black Pudding Sainsbury had was only 5% fat.

Surely this is relatively healthy compared to sausages and chips?

[sandyRoe]

Red pudding? It's an anaemic black pudding.

[Maydup]

I'd sooner eat the packaging than the Black Pudding.

It might be lower in fat than you imagined and high in iron etc but all that blood can't be a good thing, think of the level of antibiotics in it.

[i] Published: 29 March, 2012
Excessive use of antibiotics on UK livestock is fuelling an “epidemic” of E.coli infections in humans, according to a new report from the Soil Association.

The report, ‘E.coli superbugs on farms and food’, estimates there were 750,000–1,500,000 cases of E.coli infections in 2011, resulting in nearly 40,000 cases of blood poisoning and nearly 8,000 deaths. This represents a fourfold increase since the 1990s. [i]

[mike11111]

I haven't had white pudding in years. As I remember it used to contain barley but I found it always broke up in the frying pan. Up here in the north-east it is quite common to find bowls of cold black pudding on the bar on Sunday lunchtimes together with the cheese and pickled onions.

[maggiebee]

You haven't lived til you've had a white pudding supper from the chipper.

[sandyRoe]

And for authenticity it should be wrapped in an old copy of The Peoples Friend. :-)

[hc4361]

Maidup, black pudding is made by boiling the blood for a long time.

Probably safer than eating undercooked pork sausages at a bbq.

[mike11111]

Whether it is healthy or not, and its contents, are matters of supreme indifference to me. It is bloody lovely, and relatively cheap.

[andrew1707]

Andrew thinks to himself <<I can't wait 'til I mention what's in Haggis>>

[mike11111]

^^^
And that is bloody lovely as well! That and whisky are the two redeeming features of Scotland.

[andrew1707]

But Mike, what about Irn Bru

and the Crankies
Lulu
George Galloway
Gordon Brown

ah ... yes, I see your point now

[mccfluff]

i hate the stuff although wheni was a kid i used to eat it (or its equivilent) in africa

a memorable day in the pub when we were talking about such things and i announced that i loved black sausage in africa

[chi-chi66]

I love black pudding...the best type to have are the links, they come like sausages...not the flat horrible type you buy in a supermarket already packaged.
You heat them in a pan of water, whole, let them simmer, depends how many, for about 15mins. They do split open, but the excess can be retreived, then
cut open lengthwise, salt if needed, and english mustard. Beeaauutiful!

I am now going to be buying when I go shopping...best place to buy are
market stalls, or butchers.

[jno]

lol fluffy

[Old_Geezer]

Who cares how healthy it is, it's great.
No I don't know what red pudding is though.

[Kiki-frog]

Andrew, thanks for explaining what white pudding is. It sounds quite tasty.

As for Irn Bru - vile stuff. A Scottish friend living down here calls it 'William Wallace's Revenge'.

[wolf63]

I always thought that 'red pudding' and 'rissoles' were the same thing. Not sure what either of them are though.

[wolf63]

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[mike11111]

Not sure, and dredging the last of my memory, but I think red sausage was what we used to call in Geordieland Polony, a dry sausage in a red skin usually eaten cold. The term Polony could derive either from Polonia (Latin name for Poland) or Bologna in Italy.

[LyndaB]

Proper black pudding from Bury market is delicious - and our local butchers isnt bad either. Both have (all the people squeamish about the contents look away now) big lumps of fat in them that keep the pudding moist. I love them gently simmered (less likely to burst that way) then split and spread with English mustard. Mmmmmm......... - I also like them fried with bacon and egg. But one of my favourite recipes uses caramelised onions as the base, with a couple of slices of fried black pudding on top, then topped with a portion of that sweet chilli sauce that you can buy in a bottle (Blue Dragon???) Absolutely yum. Thank you very much - im blimmin starving now!

[askyourgran]

Love black pudding, now you can buy it with less fatty peices in it. My Grandda used to say it puts hairs on your chest, consequently I wouldn't eat it when I was younger.